The Bitch Ponders

Part I. I am going to a conference and I am pretty sure I will run into The One Who Does Not Want to Friend Me, On Facebook or Otherwise, a...

Can we quote you on that?

Passing along an email from Maureen Alter Tiedeman: I am the founder of Wings for Injured Athletes Inc. We are putting together a 365 daily ...

The problem that won't go away

The New York Times today focuses on the difference between Stage 4 and other breast cancers, under an unfortunate headline: "A Pink-Rib...

Debbie Friedman/Arizona

I've been listening to right-wing talk shows in order to see what the hosts and listeners are thinking about the Arizona murders. There ...

Anxious? Depressed? Eat some fish.

Why is this fish smiling? As I've reported here* before, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as Prozac are now in our w...

Elevator

Today I was waiting for the elevator to take me up to the 21st floor at Fancy Hospital. That's the you're-in-big-trouble floor, wher...

Blood test for cancer?

There's a new test that is so sensitive it can find one cancer cell in a billion. Veridex and Johnson & Johnson's Ortho Biotech...

Happy new year! Where's my brain?

Happy new year to everyone. May this be a year of joy and health, meaning good health. Everyone has some kind of health, I guess, as long as...